The Widening Circle (TWC) is an action campaign to advance a global citizens movement for a Great Transition. As a new social actor, a vast movement of global citizens expressing a supranational identity and sharing an alternative vision of a future of enriched lives, human solidarity, and environmental sustainability would work on all fronts, comprehending the various struggles for the environment and justice as different expressions of a common project. This would include building planetary institutions and bringing about democratic global governance.
The goal of the campaign is to increase the accountability and transparency of the appointments and selections of top leadership positions of the United Nations and other global institutions.
Efforts for a democratization of the international system are inseparable from human development. KDUN therefore supports the initiative for a Global Marshall Plan that strives for a worldwide ecological and social market economy. KDUN recognizes that overcoming extreme poverty in the world is an important condition for an in-depth democratization of the global order.
“We stand at a critical moment in Earth’s history, a time when humanity must choose its future. As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future holds both, great peril and great promise. To move forward we must recognize that in the midst of a magnificent diversity of cultures and life forms, we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny.” These are the first sentences of the Earth Charter. The goal is to have the charter supported by the United Nations.